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Printed

Primary

Nottingham Local Studies Library. There are numerous newspaper articles concerning events and people held at the library and need to be requested.
Some important ones are:

  • Nottingham Journal 9 October 1773
  • Nottingham Journal 8 August 1834
  • Nottingham Review 30 May 1834 – obituary to George Africanus
  • Guardian Journal 12 September 1956
  • Nottingham Evening Post 25 August 1958

Secondary

  • Nottingham Local Studies Library and Museum of Nottingham Life, Brewhouse Yard, have a number of books written by and about the black community, mainly in Nottingham.
  • Members of the black ink writing group ‘Respect due’;
  • Notts. Living History Archive – Millennium Awards, St Kitts and Nevis;
  • Les Garrison, ‘Post war immigration and settlement of West Indians in Nottingham 1948-1968;
  • Robert Murray, ‘Lest we forget – experiences of World War II West Indian Ex-Service Personnel’.
  • St Anns – memoirs of coming to St Anns from the Caribbean and the early days in Nottingham.
  • Louise Garvey, ‘Nursing lives of black nurses in Nottingham’, Millennium project, 2000
  • Edited and compiled by Adraina Louis, ‘Trailblazers – a tribute to the early lives of Jamaicans now living in Nottingham through reminisces’
  • Robert Wellesley Cole, ‘Kossoh town boy’ and ‘An innocent in Britain’.
  • Paul Crooks, ‘Ancestors’, tracing family roots.
  • NLSL. Leaflet ‘Tracing your African Caribbean Ancestors: some useful information.
  • Nottingham City Libraries have a fact sheet ‘Tracing your African-Caribbean Ancestors: some useful sources of information’. January 2006.
    Talking History , No 5, October 2002, ‘Celebrating our Caribbean Heritage’; www.le.ac.uk/emoha
  • BBC History, September 2000, ‘We also served’ www.blackhistorymap.com Channel 4 series.
  • NA. Has a display of material both written and pictures tracing the black presence in Nottingham.
  • Black History Month Newsletter – http://www.black-history-month.co.uk/index.html
    BHM is one of the most popular sites for searches around Black history and events.
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